What kind of photog am I?

2012-06-07 20:23 (comments: 0)

Answer: the wide angle kind.

I wrote this script to analyse my collection of photos. I wanted to know what focal length I use the most. Below is the output. Pretty obvious, eh? The fluke at 50 mm is caused by my owning a 50mm fixed lens that I actually use a bit. Why did I do this? Because I wondered if I am right to tolerate my Nikkor 18-200mm lens for its flexibility, despite of its obvious lack of sharpness. Yep, now I know what I sell next.

If you can suggest a reasonable wide lens to use with my D300s, please comment.

Note 1: Dan Ariely is right: we are predictably irrational

Note 2: Unfortunately my script doesn't work on raw files (the PIL python lib doesn't know how to and pyexiv2 is a bitch to compile). But if you want to use this script, remember that probably you keep a .jpg copy of most of your raw files anyways.

Update (2 days later): I should have thought of wrapping the script around exiftool, which can go into raws too. Will do next time.

(Nikon D80 then Nikon D300s with a 18-200 mm and a 50 mm lenses over 5 years)mm: nb of frames